Example sentences of "it has been common [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traditionally it has been common practice for schools to seek to maintain discipline and control misbehaviour via the exertion of authority and the employment of sanctions as punishments . |
| 2 | It has been common practice for petroleum geologists to regard the pre-Permian rocks of England south of the so-called Variscan Front as economic basement . |
| 3 | It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal . |
| 4 | It has been common practice to prioritise the need to prepare the accounts in accordance with SSAPs . |
| 5 | In the past it has been common wisdom that a major party will not suggest extreme policies , for to do so is to invite electoral defeat . |